Honywood Baronets
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The Honywood Baronetcy, of Evington in the County of Kent, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 19 July 1660 for Edward Honywood. He was the son of Sir John Honywood, High Sheriff
High Sheriff
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 of Kent
Kent
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 from 1607 to 1609. The second Baronet represented Canterbury
Canterbury (UK Parliament constituency)
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 in the House of Commons
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. The fourth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament
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 for Steyning
Steyning (UK Parliament constituency)
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, Canterbury
Canterbury (UK Parliament constituency)
Canterbury is a county constituency which has been represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 1918. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....

 and Honiton
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Honiton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Honiton in east Devon, formerly represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It sent members intermittently from 1300, consistently from 1640. It elected two Members of Parliament until it was...

. The eighth Baronet was an Alderman
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 of the Kent County Council
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. The tenth Baronet was a Colonel
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 in the British Army
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Honywood Baronets, of Evington (1660)

  • Sir Edward Honywood, 1st Baronet (c. 1628-1670)
  • Sir William Honywood, 2nd Baronet
    Sir William Honywood, 2nd Baronet
    Sir William Honywood, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1685 to 1695.Honywood was the son of Sir Edward Honywood, 1st Baronet and his wife Elizabeth Maynard, daughter of Sir John Maynard of Tooting, Surrey. He inherited the baronetcy of Evington on the...

     (c. 1654-1748)
  • Sir John Honywood, 3rd Baronet (c. 1710-1781)
  • Sir John Honywood, 4th Baronet (c. 1757-1806)
  • Sir John Courtenay Honywood, 5th Baronet (1787-1832)
  • Sir John Edward Honywood, 6th Baronet (1812-1845)
  • Sir Courtenay Honywood, 7th Baronet (1835-1873)
  • Sir John William Honywood, 8th Baronet (1857-1907)
  • Sir Courtenay John Honywood, 9th Baronet (1880-1944)
  • Sir William Wynne Honywood, 10th Baronet (1891-1982)
  • Sir Filmer Courtenay William Honywood, 11th Baronet (b. 1930)
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